A co-founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Ireland in the 1960s, Dr Woods also campaigned against the Vietnam War, and with the Dublin Housing Action Committee for better public housing for Dublin’s poor.
In 1997, Dr Woods was subjected to a Medical Council Fitness to Practice Committee inquiry, following allegations of professional misconduct in relation to her diagnosis of sexual abuse of children in five families in the 1980s. The former senator and medical doctor Dr Mary Henry, who knew Dr Woods well both professionally and personally, said she was very courageous in her work on women’s health and the sexual abuse of children. “She was also a wonderful mother,” she said.
At the age of 15, while in school in Kenya, she applied to various universities. She matriculated for Oxford but chose to study medicine at Trinity College Dublin instead, because they took undergraduates at the age of 16. Radical and well-informed, she was fearless in her engagement with authority, and personally requested Irish bishops to condemn the American bombing in Vietnam. For one demonstration, wearing a judge’s robes and a wig, she conducted a mock trial of the then US president, Richard Nixon, from the back of a lorry on Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Wow what a woman
Wow, she didn't sit still for a split second!
An extraordinary woman and what a life!
A most impressive woman.
An absolute ground breaker for women’s rights. 🙏
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